Next steps on GRG trail, restaurant liquor licenses, new 911 system: Maplewood council meeting

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Doug Miner
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At the Maplewood city council meeting on Tuesday, officials took the first votes toward passing an ordinance that would increase the number of liquor licenses for restaurants. The city will keep the limit of one license for every 200 inhabitants — just change the split between restaurants and non-restaurants to 40 percent for non-restaurants (bars), and 60 percent for restaurants. It’s currently a 50-50 split. The change would would allow for 16 non-restaurant licenses and 24 for restaurants.

The council also took the first votes for Maplewood to join the Next Generation 9-1-1 network. The new system has better locating ability for 9-1-1 calls. For example, a call from Maplewood would go to the East Central Dispatch Center, which serves Maplewood, rather than to St. Louis city. The new service can also accept text messages or video.

The final votes for the liquor license change and the 9-1-1 system will take place at the next council meeting.

After the meeting Mayor Barry Greenberg said he and City Manager Marty Corcoran had met with representatives of Great Rivers Greenway at Maplewood City Hall about a proposed biking path through the city, which was canceled after Maplewood sent a letter to GRG with a list of stipulations that GRG said were beyond the scope of the project, and could go over the budget of the federal grant that would have funded it.

Greenberg said they talked about what they were in agreement on. He said GRG will now put together a letter to send to Maplewood — the last letter was from Maplewood to GRG. Maplewood should see the letter from GRG later this week.

“They’ve read our letter, discussed the contents. They’ll go back and talk about what they feel the scope of the work should be and submit it to us, so we can start with that,” Greenberg said.

6 COMMENTS

  1. The cell tower sends the call to the closest CO. The calling cell uses the area code to tell where the call is coming from and who should get it.

  2. The 911 calls have been going to the ECDC for the last 10+ years. I can not remember them ever going to St Louis city. Maplewood use to do it themselves and then joined the 5 City ECDC.

    • One in the meeting said their calls from a cell phone have gone to St. Louis city, another said they had one go to Fenton.

      • What happens with VOIP? We have VOIP. The old landline phone number with the 781 prefix was transferred to my cell phone because it’s on my business card.

        • I assume you have something similar to AT&T’s U-Verse Voice, which works using the E-911 system (the E stands for enhanced). To simplify things, when you first signed up for the service, AT&T, or whoever your provider is, attached your phone number with a physical address. If you call 911, AT&T (or similar) uses the physical address you gave them to determine the appropriate 911 center (also known as a PSAP) to direct your call, which for must of us would be ECDC.

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